Historic Sites
Literary History Women Writers Sites |
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Andalusia Farm Milledgeville, Georgia
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During her productive years as a writer, noted female writer Flannery O'Connor spent most... |
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Emily Dickinson Museum Amherst, Massachusetts
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Emily Dickinson's troubled life and influential work are chronicled at the Emily... |
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Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home Savannah, Georgia
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Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah on March 25, 1925. When the O'Connors lived here,... |
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Gene Stratton Porter State Historical Site Rome City, Indiana
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What is now the Gene Stratton-Porter State Historic Site was the Porter’s second... |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Hartford, Connecticut
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This historic site includes the Visitor Center (1873 Carriage House), the Harriet Beecher... |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe House Cincinnati, Ohio
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This house was the home to Harriet Beecher Stowe prior to her marriage and to her father... |
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Kate Chopin House/bayou Folk Museum Cloutierville, Louisiana
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The Kate Chopin House was the Cane River home of author Kate Chopin and her husband Oscar... |
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Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home And Museum Mansfield, Missouri
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The Museum exhibits include artifacts spanning over a century of the lives of the... |
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Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society De Smet, South Dakota
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Visitors experience a unique journey into Laura's life and history with a trip to the... |
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Laura Ingalls Wilder Park And Museum Burr Oak, Iowa
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The Laura Ingalls Wilder Park and Museum contains a number of places that informed her... |
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings House And Farm Yard Hawthorne, Florida
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This site was the home of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, the author of many major literary... |
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Nichols House Boston, Massachusetts
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The museum educates visitors by providing a unique glimpse into domestic life in the... |
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Orchard House Concord, Massachusetts
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Orchard House was the Alcott family's most permanent home (from 1858 to 1877). Louisa May... |
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Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Museum (stulting House) Hillsboro, West Virginia
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This house was built by the Stulting family who emigrated from Holland to America in 1847... |
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Pearl S. Buck House Perkasie, Pennsylvania
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The Pearl S. Buck House, home to the celebrated author and her international family for... |
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Rachel Carson Homestead Springdale, Pennsylvania
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It is here in southwestern Pennsylvania that this little girl, who grew up to become... |
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Sarah Orne Jewett House South Berwick, Maine
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Writer Sarah Orne Jewett spent much of her life in this stately Georgian residence, owned... |
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The Mount: Edith Wharton's Estate and Gardens Lenox, Massachusetts
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This classical revival house represents the only full expression we have of Wharton's... |
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- Manassas National Battlefield
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Why do we need a national nonprofit membership society for American history?
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“Save America’s Treasures” has been totally eliminated—the largest Federal program supporting preservation of such treasures as the original Star Spangled Banner and George Washington’s tent.
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65% of Americans don’t know what happened at the Constitutional Convention, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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The “Teaching American History” grants—the largest Federal program supporting history education—have been completely eliminated.
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Visits to the Top 20 Civil War battlefields have dropped in half from 1970 to 2009 according to official National Park Service statistics.
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40% of Americans can’t identify whom we fought in World War II, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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A quarter of Americans believe Congress shares power over U.S. foreign policy with the United Nations, according to a recent Annenberg survey.
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“There is little that is more important for an American citizen to know than the history and traditions of his country,” John F. Kennedy wrote in American Heritage.
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The “We the People Program,” which touched some 30 million students and 90,000 teachers over 25 years, has been completely eliminated.
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Two-thirds of Americans could not correctly name Yorktown as the last major military action of the American Revolution, according to a recent national Gallup survey.
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The National Heritage Areas and Scenic Byways program, the only major Federal program encouraging visits to historic places, has been completely eliminated in Congressional committee.
